Tiny beams, called trabeculae, connect to one another in irregular ... patterns," says Sage Fulco, a postdoctoral researcher ...

As an art form, tessellation is particularly rich in mathematics, with ties to geometry ... triangle, the square and the regular hexagon. For example, a regular hexagon is used in the pattern ...

Now, a team of chemists has described a molecule that naturally assembles into these irregular ... found these patterns all on their own. “This is nature doing math,” he says.